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And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will achieve an extraordinary milestone, becoming the first human-made object to reach a full ...
How much further can Voyager 1 travel before we lose contact or it runs out of energy? What if we turned the cameras on now?
The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...
They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...
Voyager 1 and its twin send back science data continuously through the Deep Space Network, a system of radio antennae on Earth, with about six to eight hours of the probes’ detections returning ...
Voyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...
Voyager 1 has been using the X-band transmitter for decades, but the S-band hadn’t been employed since 1981 because its signal is much fainter than the X-band’s.
Voyager 1 used the thrusters for a variety of purposes as it flew by planets such as Jupiter and Saturn in 1979 and 1980, respectively. Now, ...